Cultural Evolution Seminar: Demonstration of a learning simulator

Seminar

Date: Tuesday 12 June 2018

Time: 14.00 – 15.30

Location: D502, Arrhenius Laboratories

We will demonstrate a general software for simulating learning processes that can be used to study most experimental paradigms in learning psychology and a large range of learning scenarios in nature.

The software is based on an easy to use scripting language in which one specifies 1) the learning mechanism including genetic predispositions, 2) the experiment/learning scenario and 3) data to be presented in graphs or to be exported. After a short introduction we will demonstrate the software with a number of applications including instrumental and Pavlovian conditioning, chaining or sequence learning, avoidance learning, latent learning and more.